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Super Smash Bros was one of the first games to bring this element to console gaming, allowing for players to take up arms with familiar Nintendo faces. Well, while Super Smash Bros still makes new games, it is clear that Sony wants a slice of the cake.

And so, Playstation All-Star Battle Royale was born!

Taking the concept of Super Smash Bros, playstation is attempting to breath its own influence into the cross-title gaming genre. We saw them do this before with titles like Kingdom Hearts, however taking a page from Nintendo’s gaming book could be the best decision that Sony has made…or the worst one.

Who really cares about originality these days…besides hipsters of course…yet even so, this blatant rip off of Super Smash could be taken as a borderline offensive move on Sony’s behalf. Sure, you can up the graphics, change the characters, and maybe add a little story, but honestly, people will see right through it and know that you guys just want to copy Nintendo’s brain child. Then again, it’s not like Sony tries to hide it, as we can see in their almost carbon copy layout (2D arenas and health bars are token SSM)

With that being said, I still can’t help but be pumped up for this title. With years of gaming in my resume, I personally went into ‘fanboy’ mode when I saw appearances by non-PS3 characters, namely Jak and Daxter, which was the first Playstation 2 game I owned (never played the sequels though).

Along with that dynamic duo (who acts as one character), we also know that Nathan Drake (Uncharted), Big Daddy (Bioshock), Cole MacGrath (Infamous), Heihachi Mishima (Tekken), Toro Inoue (some Japanese thingy), Sly (Twisted metal), Fat Princess (no clue where she is from), Sweet Tooth, Radec (Killzone) and…drum roll please…KRATOS, will all be on the games main roster. Some of these characters fit in while others…well…let’s just compare them to randoms in Super Smash like R.O.B. Even so, they are fan pleasers and thus, play a role in the game.

I hope that we see even more epic PS3 characters (I really really really want some Final Fantasy characters to make appearances; where you at Sephiroth?) And I doubt I will be disappointed; with the benefits of PSN, I am sure we will see downloadable content with new characters and arenas very soon.

What this article leaves me wondering is, will Xbox come up with their own version of the All star battle royale? Or will they pull a hipster and claim that it is too mainstream for them? Because really, who doesn’t want to see Master Chief take on the entire Xbox roster with one hand tied behind his back!

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